Local Crime

CHICAGO — A 32-year-old man was robbed and shot to death early Sunday morning in Humboldt Park. Marshall Russell, 32, was leaving California Clipper around 2:30 a.m. when several people in a silver sedan got out, robbed him and someone shot him multiple times. Read more...

Two men have been arrested and charged with stealing dozens of catalytic converters from vehicles across eight counties, including Lake and McHenry, the attorney general announced. Pedro Villegas-Mendoza, 22, and Octavio Goytia, 28, both of Aurora, were charged with two counts of theft greater than $10,000 and one count of aggravated possession of a stolen [...]

Officials say Lake County Sheriff Canine Dax recorded a “hat trick” by helping track down three suspects in two separate incidents, including a drug investigation and a burglary. The Lake County Sheriff’s Office said Dax was called last Wednesday to a local town to track for a suspect in a narcotics investigation who fled on [...]

CHICAGO — Several postal workers across Chicago and the suburbs have been robbed over the past day. The string of crimes involve both U.S. Postal carriers and private delivery workers who were robbed at gunpoint on the West Side of Chicago and in the western suburbs. Read more...

Investigators are pleading with witnesses to come forward after a 19-year-old man was fatally shot at a house party in Wadsworth earlier this month, which partygoers witnessed. The Lake County Sheriff’s Office responded around 1:45 a.m. on July 1 to the 40600 block of North Kilbourne Road in Wadsworth for a call of shots fired. [...]

A woman was arrested after prosecutors say she possessed a stolen car and crashed into a police car while trying to flee from officers in Waukegan. Osana M. Shreve, 26, of Waukegan, was charged with possession of a stolen motor vehicle, theft over $500, resisting a peace officer, criminal damage to state-supported property, reckless driving [...]

WILLOWBROOK, Ill. —  It’s now been one month since gunfire abruptly ended a Juneteenth gathering in unincorporated Willowbrook. Twenty-three people were shot and one person killed. No one has been charged and the lack of information from police since then is unsettling to those who were there. Read more...

Two more suspects have been charged in connection with a shootout in Beach Park that left a man dead and one of the suspects has been ordered held on a $5 million bond for also selling gun conversion kits. Anthony McCullough, 20, of Zion, was charged with one count of aggravated unlawful use of a [...]

A man was found with a ghost gun, dynamite and commercial-grade fireworks after he stopped his car — while wearing a ski mask — to film police officers on a traffic stop in Zion. Christopher Cox, 33, of Waukegan, was charged with three counts of felon in possession of a firearm, three counts of transferring [...]

An autopsy showed an 18-year-old woman and a 19-year-old woman both died from multiple gunshot wounds in a shooting in Waukegan, which local officials called “tragic and senseless.” The Waukegan Police Department responded around 5:06 p.m. Wednesday to 2421 Washington Street for a report of shots fired. Read more...